When Karen Drew is discovered in her wheelchair one chilly March day, staring out to sea with her throat cut, DI Annie Cabot, on loan to Eastern Area, gets lumbered with the case. Back in Eastvale, that same Sunday morning, a nineteen-year-old girl is found raped and strangled in a tangle of narrow alleys after a drunken night on the town, and DCI Alan Banks is called in.
Banks finds suspects galore, while Annie seems to hit a brick wall. Until she reaches a breakthrough that spins her case in a shocking and surprising new direction - a direction that involves Banks.
As Banks and Annie dig into the past to uncover the deeper connections, they find themselves also dealing with the emotional baggage and personal demons of their own relationship. And it soon becomes clear that there are two killers in their midst, and that at any moment either might strike again……..
